Short Fifty Four Poems

I'm not quite as crazy as I want to be yet....

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I remember you
Say casts feel like huge cream puffs
devouring your leg...

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Officers Toody and Muldoon
One a cherub; the other a goon

  Where are you, O, number fifty-four car ~
  Painting a rainbow, swinging on a star...

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Nothing Happened To Me – In 1953

     Nothing significant happened to me
     In nineteen hundred and fifty three.

     And the reason for that is, I am sure,
     I was born in nineteen hundred and fifty four....

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In the center of the Global village,

A world library like world bank,

With,

Many books,

Many pages,

In,

Many sizes,

Many colors,

Many languages,

But,

Fifty four people carrying a book like winning the World Cup!...

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Mavis was a party girl but a boor

   She's not welcome at parties anymore

      She causes people to yawn

         As she babbles on and on

            At twelve miles per with gusts to fifty-four

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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My Name is Tom
Written: by Tom Wright
10-7-2019

My given name is Tom,
And I’m some past eighty.
For the past fifty four years,
I’ve been married to the same lady.

It has taken extreme effort,
to negotiate some slumps
This old dog has faced,
Some serious health speed bumps.

For longevity I take no credit,
God made me no boy wonder.
“But what God has joined together,
let no MAN put asunder"
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My first funeral was my grandmother’s funeral.
I was twelve.

Two weeks later, my second funeral was for a classmate.
She was not yet twelve.

Chris was a shy, simple girl, a good student.
She had a small smile, was introverted.

I had not bothered getting to know her.
I might have thrown her an occasional “hi”.

She had a friend already.
Joyce.

I have thought of Chris for fifty-four years.
Choices can haunt you for the rest of your life…...

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Charles Darwin’s House

I was born in Darwin’s House,
After the Christmas of Fifty-Four,
Right on the Edge of Ilkley Moor,
Charles lived there, just a bit before.

St Winifred was its name in my day,
From Wells Terrace it evolved.
Darwin stayed there till the heat died down,
His works on Evolution solved.

Scientist, Biologist, very clever man,
His findings upset so many for so long.
Widely recognised as evolutions Bible,
So many swear, he got it wrong....

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